Sunday, July 16, 2017

The World of Embarrassment

We have somehow arrived at Episode 18 in our Strangerville journey. I don't know why it took us so long to do this episode. It is basically It Just Gets Stranger's theme music. Today, three incredible stories about truly the most embarrassing things I can imagine happening to a human.

And that's coming from ME. You know. The guy who once unnecessarily wandered around a Korean airport completely naked.

Today's episode contains a very special treat thanks to all of you. Sometime ago I asked you to share your most embarrassing moments on the Stranger Facebook page. You delivered. And then some. Meg and I were delighted to include some of our favorites from your offering in this episode. So check it out, and feel a little closer to your wonderfully-awkward Stranger family.

As always, thanks for your incredible support of Strangerville and the outpouring of love as we have embarked on this beautiful journey, collecting stories and sharing the best parts of life with you. We love you.

Please enjoy:

This time in Strangerville we explore stories from people (including many of you!) who have survived a nearly insurmountable amount of embarrassment. A young woman experiences the unthinkable during a college class presentation. A tanning bed mishap invokes a panicked response that only makes things worse. A newlywed has an uncomfortable encounter with his mother-in-law. And a grandmother unwittingly puts on a show for an entire restaurant full of people. Laugh and cringe with us and feel a little better about your own badges of honor.

Intro: Meg Walter

Segments:

1. Marshal Law by Lauren

2. Like Unsticking Something From A Pan story and music by David Peterson

My gut hurts from laughing so hard! I could totally picture each of those poor people in those circumstances. Thank you for providing proof that I'm not the only person to whom embarrassing things happen.

Unfortunately, still no. But you can find hundreds of stories from you fellow Strangers on the Facebook page (I asked people to share their embarrassing moments and we read many of these on the podcast). You can also find a write-up Meg included on her own site, in which she shared one of her best embarrassing stories: https://medium.com/i-should-be-deserving-to-be-to-mars/strangerville-episode-18-f4d5f4bac79a

I hope that someday we will have the manpower to produce transcripts for our episodes.

Hi EliI've found that VoiceBase is pretty easy to use. It automatically converts speech to text pretty accurately and only needs a quick review after conversion to check if everything's accurate. Here's the link if you want to check it out: https://www.voicebase.com

Eli, You are the next generation Garrison Keillor. I grew up listening to his tales of the Lake Wobegon and now I long to hear the tales of those crazy kids from Utah. It is a delight to know that the art of story telling is not dead.